Healthcare
Insurance - healthcare: prosecutions in US-wide medicare fraud
Eight Los Angeles-area residents, including two doctors, have been charged for their roles in schemes to submit more than USD14 million in false billing to Medicare, announced the US Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
Insurance: Allstate starts none large fraud cases in 2011.
Allstate Insurance, a large US insurer, has launched another case against fraudulent healthcare claimants. It's the ninth for 2011.
Insurance: Australian regulator acts to protect healthcare insurer
Australian regulator ASIC has obtained injunctions against a company and its director to protect against unsolicited "low-ball" offers being made to shareholders in NIB Holdings.
Insurance: US companies to scrap health-care coverage
Market Strategies International, a market research company, says that the Affordable Health Care for America Act is leading companies to review their policy of providing healthcare benefits for employees.
Insurance - Healthcare: Allstate sues alleging USD1.9m fraud
In a lawsuit filed in New York, its seventh this year, Allstate Insurance Company seeks to prove that several professional service corporations are actually owned and operated by a layperson rather than by licensed physicians or medical professionals.